Irving Howe and the Critics: Celebrations and Attacks

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 [First Page] [229], (1) Lines: 0 to 141 ——— 0.0pt PgV ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [229], (1) Index Adler, Jacob, 163 Agnew, Spiro, 127 Aleichem, Sholom, 14, 15, 23n71, 105, 158, 198, 203; and “The Old Country ,” 157 Alexander, Edward, 3, 4, 5, 62, 66, 68, 69, 142, 159, 173–78, 198, 201, 214 Allen, Woody, xxi Alter, Robert, 107, 174–77 American Communist Party, xi, xx, 50, 80 American Scholar, 64, 77, 119 Anderson, Sherwood, xii, xiii, xix, xviii, 51, 70, 108, 119, 181, 196; and Winesburg, Ohio, xiv, xviin3 Annie Hall, xxi Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Hofstadter), 18 anti-Semitism, 173 antiwar movement: anti-intellectualism of the, 195 Appelfeld, Aharon, 175 Arab-Israeli War, 16n2, 18n15 Arendt, Hannah, xix, 115, 116, 119, 120, 186, 194; and Eichmann in Jerusalem, 16, 218; and Origins of Totalitarianism, 119 Arguing the World (1998 film), 16n2, 65 Arnold, Matthew, 97 Babel, Issac, 203–5 Baker, Carlos, 217 Baldwin, James, 100, 204 ballet, 11, 14, 49, 93, 181, 209 Baruch, Elaine Hoffman, 48, 49 Bell, Daniel, 11, 57, 65, 149, 191, 200; at City College, 67, 103, 191; and Trotskyism, 118, 175 Bellow, Saul, 2, 70, 87, 98, 99, 105, 106, 125, 127; and Herzog, 98 Berlin, Isaiah, 57, 115 Berman, Marshall, 57–61 Berman, Paul, 54, 63, 202 Bernstein, Eduard, 118 Berryman, John, 204 Blumenthal, Sidney, 62 Bolshevik Party, 38 Bolshevik Revolution, 67 Bolshevism, 43, 44 Boyers, Robert, 2, 77–94 Brandeis University, i, 103, 217, 220 Brecht, Bertolt, 144, 145, 192 Bronx (ny), i, xiii, 27, 57, 102, 109, 150, 156, 158, 181 Brzezinski, Z. K., 120 Burnham, James, 28 Buttinger, Joseph, 35 Cahan, Abraham, 164 Cain, William, xxii, 132–42 Cannon, James P., 221 Carmichael, Joel, 45 Carver, Raymond, 108 Castro, Fidel, 60, 103 230 Index 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 [230], (2) Lines: 141 ——— 0.0pt PgV ——— Normal P PgEnds: [230], (2) Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 32, 203 Chambers, Whittaker, 52 Chekhov, Anton, 14 Chesterton, G. K., 55 China, 187 Chomsky, Noam, 5, 174 cia: funding of Congress for Cultural Freedom by, 21n45 City College of New York (ccny), xv, xx, 67, 68, 96, 98, 221n1 City University of New York (Hunter College), 11, 32, 69, 99, 149, 156, 206 civil rights movement, 33, 81 Cockburn, Alexander, 2, 5, 62–63, 174 Cohen, Elliot, 33 Cohen, Mitchell, 4 Cohen, Morris Raphael, 164 Columbia University, 80, 157 Commentary, 33, 35, 65, 98, 99, 138, 139, 176, 178, 222n6; Howe’s writing for, 70, 149; neoconservative emergence and, xxi communism, 30, 35, 42, 43, 192, 206, 215; Howe on, 80, 95, 194, 195; fall of, 30, 193 Communist Party, xi, xx, 40, 50, 67, 68, 80 Congress for Cultural Freedom (ccf), 21n45 Conrad, Joseph, xii, 28, 71, 72, 85, 86, 91, 100, 115, 120; and The Secret Agent, 71, 72, 91, 115; and Under Western Eyes, 71, 72, 91, 100 Cooper, Alan, 178 Coser, Lewis, xx, 20, 29, 50, 64, 80, 121, 195, 197, 202 Cowley, Malcolm, xii–xiv, 48 Crane, Stephen, 204, 205 Debs, Eugene V., 97 Decter, Midge, 2, 88, 89, 90 Dellinger, Dave, 63 democracy, 28, 36, 42, 44, 46, 89, 95, 104, 118, 188, 195, 202; and social democracy, xxi, 4, 5, 29, 33, 39, 40, 43, 53, 58 Democratic Party, 32, 107, 208 democratic socialism, xix, xxi, 5, 38, 39, 44, 103, 104, 118, 121, 186, 188, 192, 195 Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (dsoc), 33 Democratic Socialists of America (dsa), 33, 63 Deutscher, Isaac, 194 Dewey, John, 38 Dickens, Charles, 119 Dickstein, Morris, viii, 10, 14, 149–55, 201–11 Dionne, E. J., 62 Dissent, xxii, 1–14 passim, 35, 36, 43, 49, 50, 52, 53, 57–61 passim, 63, 70, 73, 77–80 passim, 84, 94, 110, 115, 116, 122, 124, 128, 139, 143, 151, 176, 180, 185, 202, 205, 206, 214– 20 passim; and civil liberties, 33; Howe as editor of, xi, xix–xxi, 13, 22n63, 29, 65; origins and goals of, 29, 30, 103, 104, 121, 195, 197, 216, 222n6; and Vietnam War, 35, 58...